Both Uses
vicarious
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Avant-garde and Kitsch
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- Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations.†
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- The same point can be made with respect to kitsch literature: it provides vicarious experience for the insensitive with far greater immediacy than serious fiction can hope to do.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(vicarious) experienced secondhand (through another person)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)